Duck Leeks are Poisonous: Professor Kamo's Lecture on Human Economics - Vol. 7 Ch. 45 - Lies in Statistics

[MangaDex]

 

[ocsibrm]

There's approximately two popes per square kilometer in Vatican City (Vatican City is 0.44 sq. km. One pope in ~.5 sq. km. * 2 = 2 popes per sq. km.)

Statistics, lol

 

[Babymech2]

This is just getting dumber and dumber the more specific his complaints get. "Statistics lie" is the midwit excuse of people who don't appreciate that statistics can only give precise answers to precise questions. Enrolment rates, international vs domestic student rates, graduation rates, are all valuable data points if your question is "How do Japanese colleges differ from all other countries' colleges", but Kamo wants to actually ask something like "what is the future value of choosing, today, to enrol in a Japanese higher education program - for a Japanese citizen of a specific age and specific economic outlook" (and he wants to do it with his typical center-right bias). That's why he suddenly starts talking about the 'value of college' and saying that graduation rates are much more relevant.

Statistics are unreliable and misleading if you ask really dumb questions, like Kamo.

 

[OWMWO]

So next arc is about uni trap and education hell hole, backed up by society who keep pushing higher education will result in good life BULLSHITS.

Hope this won't be a let down like previous city corruption conclusion.

Statistics are unreliable and misleading if you ask really dumb questions, like Kamo.

To put more joke, those statistics were from different years. There were no saying too where was the data coming or how elligible it is or who does it. All that Kamo said in this chapter about statistic is pretty much self centered idea BS.
But that is not the point, it serves as an intro to show how education is not always good as how society portrays it.

 

[JacobWhorne]

This is just getting dumber and dumber the more specific his complaints get. "Statistics lie" is the midwit excuse of people who don't appreciate that statistics can only give precise answers to precise questions. Enrolment rates, international vs domestic student rates, graduation rates, are all valuable data points if your question is "How do Japanese colleges differ from all other countries' colleges", but Kamo wants to actually ask something like "what is the future value of choosing, today, to enrol in a Japanese higher education program - for a Japanese citizen of a specific age and specific economic outlook" (and he wants to do it with his typical center-right bias). That's why he suddenly starts talking about the 'value of college' and saying that graduation rates are much more relevant.

Statistics are unreliable and misleading if you ask really dumb questions, like Kamo.

You ought to understand the account in context. Misaki already knows by direct observation that Japanese people go to university extremely often, but she doesn't know how to effectively verbalize her knowledge in abstract terms. Her sense really means "The proportion of prospective and attending Japanese students currently on track to become graduate from university," because it is this reality which creates the effect she has observed, but she lacks the skill to understand that the necessary statistical representation of this reality requires this level of specification, and thus the lesson in the chapter involves achieving the necessary refinement.

 

[Babymech2]

You ought to understand the account in context.

Huh? Which 'account'? The lesson here is not to refine anything, it's that statistics often lie, and here the statistics she's... found somewhere? were presented by evil scammers who want to attract more innocent Japanese to useless higher education programs.